Monthly Archives: June 2015

Woke up in Seattle this morning because tonight is the première of Running Theme, a new string orches­tra piece for Town Music. Josh Roman (the famous cellist & newly-minted conduc­tor) leads a mixed consort of seasoned pros and talented high-school­ers. I think it’ll be good; the piece is a fun compound-meter romp with lots of squeaky harmon­ics. You can listen to the live broad­cast here, at 7:30 PST.

I’m a bit gutted to be missing another première that’s happen­ing tonight in Detroit. It’s been four years since Sleeping Giant first asked eighth black­bird out for coffee, and now we’re having a baby! I mean, we wrote them a big piece. It’s called Hand Eye and we couldn’t be more proud of the little terror. There will be plenty of chances to hear it subse­quently over the coming season, includ­ing a semi-staged produc­tion by the amazing Candys­ta­tions.

A few new ‘works’ pages have been added to this website in the passive voice.

None of them have audio yet—only enough words to excite your curios­ity.

This is just to say: this website is not dead, only sleeping. The 2014–15 concert season is almost over, the last hurrah being two out-of-town premières both happen­ing June 27th. I’ll be super­vis­ing the proceed­ings in Seattle. Thanks to everyone who came to Miller Theater last night; it was great fun to play a bit of my music with some of my favorite friends & colleagues.

What else? I’m moving again, still within Brooklyn. (This is a great relief; please continue to refer to me as a “Brooklyn-based composer” because it is very impor­tant to my sense of identity.)